Mike is a House Master at Eton College, a Governor at Reed’s School in Cobham, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2012 he co-founded the Slow Education Movement in the United Kingdom which is a cross-sector educational thinktank that aims to throw a spanner into the works of any attempt to make education resemble an industrialised model. The movement has held meetings across the country and in the United States, as well as receiving a good deal of positive and supportive media coverage in the United Kingdom.

He has taught for 20 years on Eton’s Summer School programmes and has also led sessions for the member schools of the Eton-Windsor-Slough State School Partnership. He specialises in promoting greater co-ordination between academic and pastoral programmes, as well as leading staff development in the key areas of motivation and creating and maintaining a school-wide ethos.

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